Build Back Better Act

Floor Speech

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Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. Madam Speaker, I start by echoing the sentiments that both the chairman and the ranking member had about Jackie Walorski and how deeply we all feel for her and her family and the staff members who were lost.

I congratulate Mr. Neal and also members of this committee, most notably Mr. Thompson and Mr. Blumenauer, as well, for their work on climate change and for their work throughout this period of putting forward consequential legislation. I say ``consequential'' in the time I am allotted because I want to talk and focus specifically on some of these claims.

I hope the American people are listening. You don't bring about change by appealing to the sum total of the fears of the American people. You bring about change aspirationally and by doing something constructive and putting forward legislation as opposed to putting forward the collective fears of a nation and hoping that you might be able to exploit those fears for political gain.

The myth that there are 87,000 IRS agents, even Trump's former person rejects that. It is nonsense, as Mr. Neal has pointed out.

What matters to people is when you help them directly, like Rod Yearwood in West Hartford, Connecticut, who is paying $1,400 a month for his insurance, but now, under this bill, is paying $20 a month. The real savings he gets from that allows him to provide for a college education for his children. Aspiration.

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